Great tutorial! However I think for Tip #1 you need to add "Ask land owner's permission" as it's illegal to take anything (not even a twig) from a local park, wood or forest in UK. Don't want your followers getting in trouble, however slight a possibility that may be.
Thanks for the kind words Jason, glad you liked it! It's a bit long, but we tried to cover the basics on everything. I would have loved to gone with more explosions... but I also didn't want to burn down the house! The wife would kill me! ;)
I'm just starting out doing action figure photography and this was really helpful. though I do need to find a different editing program since photoshop can get a bit expensive.
If you really want the perfect lens for this, look into the old Nikon Macro 85mm tilt shift lens. I own it and it is phenomenal. I haven't done any toy photography yet, but I'm thinking about giving it a go and I think that lens is perfect for this.
When l was 15 l made a future city with old plastic packinging and dinky toy cars with tiny head lights glued into the back of them to make um look like future different looking cars going forward.l took photos of it on my mothers disppossible camera.looking back l was years ahead of my time.That was 1994.
Thanks for a great video, i've been thinking about doing this for awhile now, and this was great for someone looking to start out in this type of photography.
Thanks for the kind words Hervé, stick around, we have plenty of other subjects to share, hopefully we'll find a good one for you. If not, let us know the kind of photography you're into, inspiration always helps us out!
Lovely explanation and demonstration. The water droplets on his face and clothes gives the scale away though. Maybe a very fine misting spray would help.
So let me get this straight in your tips video you say "do not do this" Then you proceed to launch fireballs in a confined space on top of a flammable cardboard box Brilliant
